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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    @aGeekhere dns_v4_first...have years and they still don't clean the code. But won't affect.
  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @NRgia said in Suricata on Pfsense: @bmeeks Thank you for what you did for Snort or Suricata. I'm not sure what you want me to do on Redmine, due to is a bug tracker. My question is for Product Management, which I will ask it here to be public: What is the plan for these 2 packages, Suricata and Snort? Thank you Yes, Redmine is for both bug reports and feature requests. Asking for the Suricata binary to be updated to the latest 7.0.11 version from upstream is a legitimate Redmine request. I would suggest simply asking for the binary version update instead of asking about future Netgate strategy (such as the support plans for the packages). Strategy discussions typically don't get very far because they deal with proprietary information or plans that a company may not want to publicly discuss. Redmine is where the Netgate developer team tracks all the code changes they make for pfSense. They will see Redmine reports much quicker than a forum post.
  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @Leon-Straathof Data retention settings are handled inside of ntopng. Documentation here. Pay attention to the RRD note. Also, if you've turned on some of the slice and dice time series information (is off by default), I'd suggest turning them back off. These balloon the storage requirements and are of little actual use.
  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @tinfoilmatt said in Failed or invalid Mime Type: [application/SIMH-tape-data|0]: (ASN data is IPinfo, not Maxmind) Thats correct but "GeoLite2-Country" is from Maxmind ... (that confused me) I'm considering simply adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list to test. Thats what i tought too ... I'll try when I have the time for it ... Edit: I can confirm - adding "application/SIMH-tape-data" to the list at line 257 in /usr/local/pkg/pfblockerng/pfblockerng.inc did the trick - no more error! Edit: OK, problem resolved but I would like to know, whats the cause for that error! Thanks a lot!
  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: Interesting. I would have thought the initial reboot, which occurred as part of the upgrade, would have done the trick, but it took a second reboot, just now, to get things working. Glad you have it sorted. There was no difference in the output of usbconfig show_ifdrv at any point -- before or after unplugging/replugging the USB cable, nor after rebooting. ... Question: What would tell me whether or not a driver was loaded? If there were an attached driver, it should have shown up with the show_ifdrv command. If you use the command and look at the other usb devices, I think they will show attached drivers. I don't expect to see a driver attached to the ups, because there is a quirk that tells the OS to ignore that device (and not attach a driver). Look for idVendor and idProduct in the above output. The Vendor ID for your device is 0764, which corresponds to Cyber Power Systems, and the Product ID for your device is 0601, which is registered as "PR1500LCDRT2U UPS" (don't sweat an exact match for the name). You can see the quirk with the following command: [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: usbconfig dump_device_quirks | grep 0764 VID=0x0764 PID=0x0005 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0501 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE VID=0x0764 PID=0x0601 REVLO=0x0000 REVHI=0xffff QUIRK=UQ_HID_IGNORE [25.07-RC][root@fw]/root: Your device is third on the list. The HID_IGNORE quirk says to ignore the device and not attach a driver. @jhg said in NUT fails to start after 2.7.2 -> 2.8.0 upgrade: You might consider adding this resolution to the release notes for 2.8. LOL... sorry, I don't have input to the release notes (I don't work here). While I wrote and maintain various packages, including NUT, I'm still just a volunteer. Most packages are actually written by volunteers.
  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @raidflex said in updating to acme 1.0 breaks system beyond repair: need to restore from backup: maybe uninstall Crowdsec when applying other updates first. It seems like it doesn't help at least from what I see on my system... it changes something.. so it must be definitely reported to their github. I have never experienced that before and crowsec was installed.. maybe with 2.8.0 something have changed
  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    said in Please update frr on Pfsense+ to FRR 10.3: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15785 now frr 10.4.1
  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Updated CE 2.7.2 to 1.86.4 Changelog pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/tailscale-1.86.4.pkg Freshports
  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    @boyan1 said in Wireguard Gateway not coming up after reboot.: W Hey man, im trying to make the SITE A use internet of SITE B as you did, but there is no means of making that works. How did you make that works? Could you tell me please? Thanks!
  • Help getting started with Avahi

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    @Fumbles: Does anyone have a newbie friendly, step by step guide on what I need to do to get this working and to test it properly? I remember that I installed it once and that it worked out of the box. There is not much to configure. I don't have it installed anymore.
  • Squid3 proxy on pfsense question. it about error Invalid URL.

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    Sorry, the upper diagram is not correct.. I modified it as following; [WAN1]–------------------------------[router]–--------------[switch1]–--------[PC1]                                                         |          LAN1                                                         |                                         LAN2        | [WAN2]–-----[pfsense]–-------------[switch2]–---------[PC2]
  • Help - Web Filtering with SquidGuard

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    @virtualliquid squid and squidguard installation is a bit tricky and it depends on what pfsense version you are working: pfsense 2.0.x squidguard package contains squid2.7 binaries. So if you want to run squid2.7 package and squidguard package all works with a simple installation. if you want to have squid3 running with squidguard you need to do this: 1.) install squid3 2.) install squidguard (which unfortunately installs squid2 over squid3) 3.) reinstall squid3 package Done. On pfsense 2.1 there is a new squidguard-squid3 package. This is squidguard with squid3 binaries. So you just need: 1.) install squid3 2.) install squidguard-squid3 Done. Hopefully this will help you. PS: As far as I know on squid3 the squidguard process only starts when needed and the service is stopped when not needed.
  • Packages not available

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    Checking for package installation… Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/p7zip-9.20.1.tbz ...  could not download from there or http://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/All/p7zip-9.20.1.tbz. of p7zip-9.20.1 failed! The first link at files.pfsense.org is the one that should work. The second link is a fallback that used to happen for things that were not stored on files.pfsense.org - but nowadays I believe all package files should be in place on files.pfsense.org I can browse to files.pfsense.org and see file and directory listings. If I click on your files.pfsense.org link from my browser it happily downloads the p7zip file, and installing from my pfSense test system works fine. So there is some issue with your system resolving files.pfsense.org
  • System Patches - auto-apply patch does not work…

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    I never could reproduce this. It always applied at boot for me post-upgrade. That said, given the problem you hit with another issue, I tried delcaring the variables global before defining them in the patches package include file. Upgrade the package, and then see if it works after the next firmware update.
  • Bsnmp-regex

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    It looks like the regex module needs some custom bsnmpd.conf lines for it to work. regexConfig regexSocket As you can see above it also needs local file UNIX domain socket created which also means you have to have something sending data to that socket.  This is more complex than I expected.  I assumed you could have bsnmpd run external scripts to get data kind of like net-snmpd.  My main goal was to get critical things like gmirror status. OPTIONS     To activate the bsnmp-regex module you must load the module in     /etc/snmpd.config and configure the location for the UNIX socket and     bsnmp-regex.conf(5) file. See the examples section below.     regexConfig                 The location of the bsnmp-regex.conf(5) file. This option must                 be specified.     regexSocket                 The location of the UNIX socket on which this module will                 listen for logs or text to match. EXAMPLES     For a simple bsnmp-regex configuration add the following to     /etc/snmpd.config:           begemotSnmpdModulePath."regex" = "/usr/local/lib/snmp_regex.so"           %regex           regexConfig = "/usr/local/etc/bsnmp-regex.conf"           regexSocket = "/var/run/bsnmp-regex.sock"
  • LoadBalancer with state failover to backup firewall

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    Someone more familiar with the packages like haproxy, varnish, mod_proxy, etc, would need to comment on whether or not it's technically possible with the software (outside of our GUI). If it is, someone could potentially add it. In the meantime, relayd does tend to do a decent job.
  • Squidguard crashed pfsense

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  • Snort 2.9.4.6 pkg v. 2.5.9 starting disabled on interface

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    Yep - that seems fine now, snort starts up enabled as expected - thanks again. I think those kids will just do an end run around you again. You're probably right. I'll see what can be done. Perhaps your first suggestion might work  :'(
  • Squid & SquidGuard won't start on pfSense 2.0.3

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    @jimp: It's apparently still missing files. Remove all traces of squid and squidGuard from System > Packages. From the shell: pkg_delete *squid* Then reinstall what you want. It worked :) thank you!
  • After rule update, snort just stopped

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    @maex: Usually what fixed situations like these for me: uninstall the snort package (keeping settings - a option in pfsense snort interface)) - then reinstall. Wait until it is done! In my experience DONE is not necessarily the same as what the web-gui says.  If you use a lot of rules the web-gui tells you the update or install is done. But if you watch top you will realize that processes snort and package_reload (or so) may run very actively for a couple of minutes longer than that. My best practice: don't touch the web-gui while these processes finish the update. But I also have to say that I ran into these issues mostly when RAM was low. Never had these problems since I have 8GBs of RAM. Snort uses around 2,3 GB running, and 3-4 GBs while loading. If above situation did not work for me - uninstall the snort package but also REMOVE settings - then reinstall and setup your interfaces and rules. Thanks for your reply, Maex  ;D I think mine was another problem, some sort of error in the official VRT-rules. Since after there was another rule update, Snort suddenly worked again.
  • Bandwidthd not seeing P2P traffic

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    Ok, so I did understand correctly.  Unfortunately, that doesn't really help me :P.  My biggest use for bandwidthd is trying to identify computers running P2P software on the network, and I was hoping bandwidthd would do some deep state inspection or something to identify P2P.  Fortunately, almost all P2P traffic is UDP, so I can pinpoint it that way. Now that I think about it, a combination of nmap, snort, and bandwidthd should give me exactly what I need.
  • Squid3 integration with CISCO WCCP through GRE tunnel - HELP needed!!!

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    Hi All found this article - http://fakrul.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/transparent-squid-proxy-server-with-wccp-support/#comment-1754 It seems we have to recompile the kernel to implement this…  :o
  • Squid filtering https

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    is it possible to use this as solution http://linuxlabz.blogspot.com/2012/05/https-traffic-block-in-squid-26.html is there way to forward all inside traffic over port :443 to port :3128?
  • Snort - Host Attributes Table - inlcude pfsense interfaces as hosts?

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  • Conceptually: how do these packages 'hang' together?

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    Very basic(!) overview: pfsense = Firewall … blocks external connections Pfblocker = Blocks countries and IP ranges you don't want to connect Snort = Intrusion Detection System Squidguard = SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the proxysoftware Squid (which is not on your list, but required for squidguard!) They all don't "feed" data into core - they all check traffic in different ways. You need to learn of all them if you want to understand their configuration and fit to your needs. Set them up in the order I specified above. After you box is up and running including snort start to learn about proxies (squid).
  • HAVP Proxy timeout

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  • Squid Rever proxy block Exchange 2013 ECP

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  • Package to use pfsense as a NAS/Torrent client end repository

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  • Openvpn/pfblocker client package (re) install failure

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    I was able to uninstall the openvpn client package, but when it got to the pfblocker package uninstall I see a similar error leaving me no way to remove pfblocker.  Is there a manual way to remove a package?  I imagine I could remove it from the packages section in config.xml and find all the relevant files but where are they all? error messages: Beginning package installation. Removing package... Removing pfBlocker components... Tabs items... done. Menu items... done. Loading package instructions... … and at the bottom of the page: Warning: Unterminated comment starting line 719 in /usr/local/pkg/pfblocker.inc on line 719 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /usr/local/pkg/pfblocker.inc on line 719
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